Flood Risks in Agricultural Areas Along Mesta River

Abstract

Natural hazards and flood events; are part of nature. In most cases, floods are caused by climatological phenomena, which are Out of human control. The scale and frequency of floods are likely to increase ill the future as a result of climate change, inappropriate river management and construction ill flood risk areas. There has been a marked increase ill Vulnerability due to the number of people and economic assets located in flood risk zones. Two natural disasters Such as drought and flood have effected oil different parts of the earth as a result of increasing human's interference on global climate. In the recent years, Our country was a witness ill Occurrence of floods and severe droughts, which has caused destruction of agricultural lands. The process of the delimitation of the endangered agricultural areas is a priority task for the Bulgarian scientists and the Water authorities. A research of the river basin of Mesta concerning such flood issues has been carried Out. Hydrological analyses were made ill order to get the probability of the maximum runoff. The obtained results were considered in different scenarios of flood events (water level or depth, flood extends), meeting the requirements of the European Union (EU) Flood Risk Management Directive. The presented research is a part of a project for Young scientists about determination of the agricultural areas endangered by floods ill the river Mesta watershed.